In our final interview from NDC London, Jon and K. Scott talk to Rob Ashton his cage match with Jeremy Miller on NodeJS vs. C#, some functional languages he’s been learning, and cooking just enough curry.

(00:18) K Scott asks Rob about the cage match he just had with Jeremy Miller comparing testing in NodeJS and C#. Rob’s got a lot of good things to say about what Jeremy showed, but is pretty sure he won.

(02:40) K Scott asks Rob to explain why he doesn’t like monkey patching. Rob mentions how QuickCheck helps, then talks about how code structure obviates the need for monkey patching.

(05:16) Jon asks how he bootstraps his application to inject dependencies and explains how he avoids deep dependency chains.

Clojure?

(06:40) K Scott asks what led him to Clojure.

(07:39) Jon asks Rob what he likes about Clojure. Rob says a better question is what he likes about functional programming languagues, then explains.

(09:25) K Scott asks about some of the learning project Rob’s been working with to learn Clojure. Rob talks about some of the games he started with, then the RavenDb reimplementation he’s been building with Clojure called Craven.

What do you do in your free time?

(12:56) K Scott asks Rob what he does in his free time. Rob starts by talking about Clojure, then talks about some of the complicated cooking things he’s been working on. He talks about some of the similarities between cooking and coding, and some of the constraint he deals with in ambitions cooking projects.

The future

(14:58) K Scott asks Rob about some of his plans for early 2014. Erlang away!